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Sacred steel : inside an African American steel guitar tradition / Robert L. Stone

Catalog Data

Author:
Stone, Robert L. 1944-  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2010
C2010
Contents:
Discovery -- The churches : beliefs, social milieu, and the development of the steel guitar -- Traditions -- Church meetings and the steel guitarist's role in them -- The steel guitar -- The Eason Brothers -- Little Willie and his talking guitar -- Henry Nelson : the liberace of sacred steel -- The Jewell Dominion -- Motor city steel -- Calvin Cooke -- Shaping the modern sound : pedal-steel guitar innovators Chuck Campbell and Glenn Lee -- Negotiating the new millennium
Topic:
Church music--African American churches  Search this
Hawaiian guitar music--History and criticism  Search this
African American guitarists  Search this
African American church musicians  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_983779